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Frederick Brooks (search for this): chapter 5
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Fin De Siecle.
NEARLY a century ago (to be precise, at April town meeting, in 1829), Medford people decided that their highways should have distinctive names, and directed the selectmen to suitably designate them.
Medford square was then known as the market-place, and though nearby were several rum distilleries, the pump in the square supplied man and beast with nature's own beverage, and was the starting point of three principal roads of the baker's dozen the selectmen named.
The first branched to the right from High street to Woburn line.
Purchase (now Winthrop), Woburn and Grove.
Today only the three Hall houses below Governors avenue, the Unitarian parsonage, and the old Magoun cottage opposite remain of those standing in 1829.
The present Winthrop square was then called Turell's corner.
A new road had then been recently proposed which would have crossed the Playstead and Brooks estate, and also the Aberjona river, to the West Cambridge road, but instead, another was
1813 AD (search for this): chapter 5
1891 AD (search for this): chapter 5
1835 AD (search for this): chapter 5
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1820 AD (search for this): chapter 5
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